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GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by therealmarv »

teekert wrote: post #11

Omg, this is insane, I now realize I automatically memorize the first 3 and last 3 parts of filenames I need in the picker... For screenshots I read the date very carefully and fear the day I upload a wrong one. I was going to the toilet with a plunger, not even realizing it. Btw, if you work on MacOS (which has been a while for me now), you get very used to hitting space everywhere to get previews. What a feature!

There is a solution called GNOME Sushi which enabled that also in GNOME. Also a Windows solution is existing (forgot the name)

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by johannes1234321 »

Gnome uses Gtk; Gtk is the Gimp Toolkit. It was created for an image editing program. In a way funny that their file picker is missing such an feature one would expect in an image editing program these days.

(From scrolling offer the discussion I can in parts see the architectural constraints they have and can image they have other priorities ...)

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by johnchristopher »

nisa wrote: post #47
johnchristopher wrote: post #39

> One might also say "Just use KDE!" Yeah, I guess I could use KDE, just like I use the downstairs toilet instead of the other ones. Yeah but when you go to the downstairs toilet you can't bring in your favourite newspaper because the paper its printed on isn't compatible with the light bulb and you can't read it. Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails.

> Firefox on KDE uses the GTK filepicker. No thumbnails. Not true. Firefox on current Arch/Plasma works fine with the KDE filepicker.

It's completely true on Kubuntu 18.04. Ah !

now that I think about it I remembered a little trick https://askubuntu.com/questions/1100261/how-do-i-make-firefo... Have to try it again.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by ravenstine »

senko wrote: post #2

Users like these are why maintainers of open source software are burning out.

It's a pretty basic feature for a modern file manager.

The way I see it, maintainers like these are why users of open source software are burning out and switching to macOS.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by mgreenly »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #20
enriquto wrote: post #13

In this time and age, do we really need "desktops"? If you only need a full-screen terminal and a full-screen browser (as is the case for many people), the whole desktop thing is unnecessary clutter.

Terminals are probably never again going to be the primary computing interface for most people.

Without question I think that's true, but they certainly will be the primary interface of some people forever.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by seltzered_ »

Reminds me of a different story involving Bill Gates, toilets, and user interface design: https://web.archive.org/web/20120427101911/http://jacksonfis...

"At one particularly frustrating moment, I offered the following: “Bill, a shower, a toilet, and a water fountain all have mechanisms to control water flow, places where the water comes out, some sort of porcelain basin to hold the water, and a drain, but we don’t combine them into one thing to reduce their learning curve. We don’t merge them into one object because each of them are in use in fundamentally different ways at different times.”

Then the pause.

Then Bill’s verdict. ["That's just rude."]

Ouch.

As I saw my career disintegrate before me, I started to question just how “beautiful” my analogy really was. To his credit, Bill was forgiving, and met with me many times after that, giving me numerous opportunities to get him on board with all manner of ideas coming from my team (with varying degrees of success on my part). Ultimately, I never did succeed in making Bill really comfortable with a more emotional approach to software design. But the real lesson of the day was learned. In the software industry, as long as the engineering-minded run the show, the notion of subtle and textured user experience design that balances the emotional and functional aspects of a software experience will always struggle to take root."

--

I keep a running list of little workflows and experiences I generally love on macOS and see if alternatives exist here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/148zTJUwfVv9xfDcpSoH3...

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by therealmarv »

sercand wrote: post #48
therealmarv wrote: post #23

GNOME is in general terrible for everything with image related work (last tested on Ubuntu 20.04). In the past I thought finder on macOS is terrible (it's still the worst piece of macOS and I don't like it) but GNOME files aka Nautilus tops it for sure (also because of space wasting issues). XFCE and KDE both do a better job than GNOME in this regard. And also Windows Explorer was and is much much better in this area…

Why do you don't like Finder? I couldn't think any issue with it.

My biggest complaint: Normal Copy and Paste does not work. My mother is used to Copy and Paste and it would work in Linux but not in macOS finder because of: think different

Also why are folders sometimes cluttered all over the place and shorts cuts so weird?

Well I fixed it all with Forklift but I also grew up with Norton Commander ;)

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by vetinari »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #24
ornxka wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If people are going to make crappy half-baked software that doesn't work, they need to be upfront about it so people stop expecting it to do its job. If they're not going to do this, people are right to expect a basic level of quality and to complain when they don't get it.

It also doesn't help that theres an utter legion of Linux users who deny that the ecosystem has any deficiencies at all compared to windows and macOS. It's so misleading.

All three have deficiencies, and for all three you will find people claiming that their chosen one is best thing since sliced bread.

No need to single out a specific one.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by michaelt »

its-summertime wrote: post #26

> Okay. Well, how much money should I pay for someone to fix this then? I’m legit offering a bounty here. How much are you willing to offer?

The problem with feature bounties is: $500 is a lot to give, but not much to receive.

Re: GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

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Post by santoshalper »

enriquto wrote: post #28
guerrilla wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I want to be able to look at more than one thing at a time.

Then you need a window manager, not a desktop.

You mean like the literal desktop, the icons and whatnot?

What does that even have to do with this article, which is about a file picker?

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